US spied on Iraqi leaders, says Bob Woodward.

In his new book, Bob Woodward reveals that the Bush administration was spying on Iraqi leaders, including Iraq's prime minister Al Maliki.No dialogue with your " enemies" and spying on your friends that is the Bush foreign policy doctrine in a nutshell. Woodward's book is coming out next week. It is a must read.

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Blackwater: Bush's Shadow Army in NOLA again.

The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army. The Bush administration " Praetorian Guard " has been dispatched to New-Orleans to pick up the slack....from the Louisiana National Guard still busy Iraq. I guess when you don't believe in government you need a private army.

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Why are we still paying for Iraq's Reconstruction?

Iraq has being posting record profit from oil revenues, almost 80 billion in the current fiscal year. It is time for the US to scale down its financial help for Reconstruction and military assistance and let the Iraq's government take control of their own future.

However, because of the large exodus of Iraqis' professional (around 3 million left Iraq) and the dismantling of the Baath party by the US in the early stage of the invasion, Iraq has a lack of competent administrators to deal with the budget surplus and make life of Iraqis citizens better.

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Iraq insists on U.S. withdrawal timetable: official

By Ahmed Rasheed and Mohammed Abbas BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government's national security adviser said on. Bad news for the Bush Administration and of course John McCain.

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Scott McClellan has put the final nail in the coffin of Bush's " Legacy"

In his new book, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan takes a hard look at the logic of deception and spin that took America to a war of choice in Iraq.

While some of us knew that from the get go, most Americans ( including the House and the Senate) bought the argument to go to war and the so call " evidence" ( cooked by the Bush Administration with the help of the CIA) of the WMD and other tall tales of uranium cake from Niger. Not to forget, of course, the pending doom of " mushroom clouds " mentioned ad nauseum by Dick Cheney.

McClellan states that the Bush Administration used a " political propaganda campaign " to sell the Iraq war to Americans. The real goal, directly from the neo-cons playbook, was of course to " reshape the Middle-East " starting with Iraq on the premise of " spreading freedom and democracy ".

Well, now, it should be obvious to almost anyone with a brain, that the Neo-cons pull a con job on Americans. It seems that Bush and his inner circle started believing their own spin and propaganda.

I will be more blunt than McClellan: The American people were told LIES in order to implement the Neo-con' s ideology.

To read more and listen to an interview of Scott McClellan go to:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90923282

Is " Maverick", McCain, turning into a trigger happy loose cannon?

President Bush's official heir, McCain, cranked up his aggressive rhetoric towards Hamas over the week-end. He stated : " I will be Hamas's worst nightmare..." and had the audacity to say that Hamas was supporting....Obama in the US elections.

This kind of conterproductive stances remind us of the one made by Bush when he told Iraqi's insurgents to " Bring it on..." a few years ago.

The overall situation in the Middle-East, thanks to the Bush administration reckless policy, is grim. Beside the Iraq fiasco, we have now a civil war brewing in Lebanon, still no prospect of resolution between Israel & Palestine and Turkey attacking Iraq's Kurds within Iraq's border.

Well, at least we know what to expect if McCain is elected; Another four years of " My way or the highway" diplomacy and, yet, another trigger-happy Commander in Chief.

The choice is clear for American voters.

For more info about McCain's statement on Hamas and Obama go read Harold Pollack's article in the Huffington Post @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-pollack/mccains-nonsense-about-ha_b_98786.html